Determination of breakage rates using single drop experiments

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 70, Issue , 2012, Pages 146-164

  Maaß, Sebastian ^a   Kraume, Matthias ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breakage kernel model; Breakage time; Drop breakage; Parameter estimation; Population balance modeling; Rushton turbine

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS RESULTS; BREAKAGE KERNEL MODEL; BREAKAGE MECHANISM; BREAKAGE PROBABILITY; DROP DIAMETERS; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; LITERATURE MODELS; NEW MODEL; POPULATION BALANCE MODELING; RUSHTON TURBINES; SINGLE DROPS; STIRRED TANK; TIME MODEL;

EXPERIMENTS; MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; VISCOSITY;

DROPS;

EID: 84855444066     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.08.027     Document Type: Article

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